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...prosecutor than Doar. Observed Republican Hamilton Fish Jr. of New York: "Doar deliberately cultivates a monotone to try to avoid revealing personal biases or coloring the facts. It's awfully dull." Indeed, within an hour after the opening of the first day of hearings, Democratic Representative James Mann of South Carolina fell asleep...
This year Harvard has produced two particularly professional students; student director Emily Mann who has received a Fellowship to study at the Guthrie, and Raymond Huessy who has just been accepted in the Design programme at NYU (stage design...
...draw an exact line between an alcoholic and a severely troubled drinker. "The issue," he states, "is why some people apparently waste their lives on alcohol while others don't. What's the 'glue' that binds some people to their alcohol problems?" Adds Marty Mann, the woman who founded the National Council on Alcoholism: "No one has ever found the way to turn a nonalcoholic into an alcoholic. There is a basic difference in people...
...skipped even the social-drinker phase. They passed from total abstinence directly into chronic alcoholism. This may be due in some cases to a biochemical imbalance of some sort. "There have been people I call 'instant alcoholics' who are in trouble the minute they drink," says Marty Mann...
Easy Cop-Out. Even A.A. requires the alcoholic's commitment to change. Many workers in the field are now trying to downplay the idea-espoused by Marty Mann 30 years ago-that alcoholism is a disease. The label may make problem drinking worse by absolving the drinker of responsibility. An overemphasis on the psychological causes of alcoholism can have a similar effect. "A search for the roots of the personal problems that cause a person to become addicted can become an easy cop-out," says Psychiatrist Robert Moore. "The classic therapy game becomes a technique of protecting his alcoholism...